07-15-2010, 11:48 PM
Roc, aren't all of those quotes from the Slate article "The Case Against M. Night Shyamalan?"
I mean, think of the title of that article...does anyone think you're going to get a fair and balanced portrait?
I urge you to read the following article, which is kind of a different take on the director (and is actually titled "A Different Take.")
It paints him as a kind of nerdy, innocent fellow, a good dad, a good son, a good husband....the kind of guy who makes all his films in his hometown of Philly, so as to be close to his family and old friends. The kind of guy who donates $1.5 million so that a sociology group can try an experiment where they beautify a 5-block area of the worst ghetto in Philly, hoping it might have a "pay it forward" effect.
This article came out at about the same time as the Slate vivisection that you quoted from ('04-ish), so he may have changed and "gone Hollywood" since then...I don't know. But he seems pretty interesting in this write-up:
Good article
I mean, think of the title of that article...does anyone think you're going to get a fair and balanced portrait?
I urge you to read the following article, which is kind of a different take on the director (and is actually titled "A Different Take.")
It paints him as a kind of nerdy, innocent fellow, a good dad, a good son, a good husband....the kind of guy who makes all his films in his hometown of Philly, so as to be close to his family and old friends. The kind of guy who donates $1.5 million so that a sociology group can try an experiment where they beautify a 5-block area of the worst ghetto in Philly, hoping it might have a "pay it forward" effect.
This article came out at about the same time as the Slate vivisection that you quoted from ('04-ish), so he may have changed and "gone Hollywood" since then...I don't know. But he seems pretty interesting in this write-up:
Good article
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